Patna: Nitish Kumar government was in for another setback after seven girls were found missing from a Patna based shelter home on Saturday.
According to the police, the incident occurred in a shelter home which was being run by Nazareth hospital in Mokama of Patna district.
Speaking on the issue Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi said that, “FIR has been registered by the local police station and efforts are on to trace the girls who have gone missing”.
Sources told this newspaper that at least four of seven girls who were found missing on Saturday were the witnesses in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual abuse case which had surfaced in 2018. The incident has also triggered a political storm in Bihar. Opposition leaders said that eyebrows are being raised.
“The incident could be an attempt to save big faces. The case is being monitored by the Supreme Court but I think that the victims are not safe under the current regime here”, Leader of opposition in the state assembly Tejashwi Yadav said in a tweet.
Reports suggest that the girls vanished at around 3 am on Saturday and the police who arrived at the shelter home found tampered grill near the main gate.
“We are not ruling out any possibility”, Rural SP Sanjay Kumar Singh said.
